when big tech company A was preparing for being sold, they brought in "my boss' boss" .. a woman new to the company. She promptly refused to meet with any rank and file engineer, at all, despite an arms long list of them wanting to meet. Secondly, she stopped showing up to her assigned office on the same floor as the engineers, where her predecessor had a glass-wall office overlooking the same working area.. Later, we found out that she was in fact inviting herself to any and all meetings she could get into, regarding the coming sale of the company.. it was a strategic move on her part to absolutely distance herself in every way from those doing work, and meet and become important to, officers in the company who will be part of the company sale.
